Courses

The Population Health Core Curriculum (M.S., Ph.D.) includes an introductory course in population health, an introductory course in health services research, a two-semester sequence in epidemiology, a three-semester sequence in biostatistics, and a course in research ethics.  Students concentrating in clinical research will choose a relevant thesis/dissertation topic and select electives from courses such as:

 
Introduction to Environmental Health (PHS 471)
Air Pollution and Human Health (PHS 502)
Introduction to Nutritional Epidemiology (PHS 621)
Quality of Health Care (PHS 703)
International Health (PHS 718)
Infectious Disease Epidemiology (PHS 801)
Advanced Epidemiology (PHS 802)
Assessment of Medical Technologies (PHS 875)
Cardiovascular Epidemiology (PHS 904-001)
Genetic Epidemiology (PHS 904-002)
Analytic Methods in Genetic Epidemiology (PHS 904-003)
Global Epidemiology (PHS 904-004)
HIV/AIDS Epidemiology (PHS904-006)
Introduction to Clinical Trials (BMI 542)
Introduction to Clinical Trials II (BMI 544)
Clinical Genetics (Genetics 731)
Human Performance & Accident Causation (ISyE 555)
Patient Safety & Error Reduction (ISyE 559)
Organization and Job Design (ISyE 653)
Organization Design (ISyE 854)
Human Factors Engineering (ISyE 859)
Ethical and Regulatory Issues in Clinical Investigation (Med Hist 545)
Health Program Planning, Evaluation, & Quality Improvement (Nurs 761)
Clinical Nutrition (Nutr Sci 631)
Safety & Quality in the Medication Use System (Pharm Prac 608)
Statistical Methods for Clinical Trials (STAT 641)
Survival Analysis Theory & Methods (STAT 741)